'Woah!' Christian Nationalist Podcasters Celebrate Eugenics-Based Essay from 1921

It takes a lot to shock me these days, but these clips with Christian nationalists Andrew Isker and C.Jay Engel talking about race left me gobsmacked.

“Any theory which involves the claim that racial or ethnic groups are inherently superior or inferior, thus implying that some would be entitled to dominate or eliminate others, presumed to be inferior, or which bases value judgments on racial differentiation, has no scientific foundation and is contrary to the moral and ethical principles of humanity.” — UNESCO Declaration on Race and Racial Prejudice, November 1978

For many decades, it has been widely accepted that the “junk science” of eugenics led President Calvin Coolidge to embrace flawed notions that race made some people better suited to be American citizens than others.

“There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons,” Coolidge wrote in a 1921 essay in Good Housekeeping as he was about to assume the vice presidency.

“Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. The Nordics propagate themselves successfully. With other races, the outcome shows deterioratio…